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To Have This For Lunch? (Safe to Eat - Raw Prawns??!)

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LilacCatt · 19/10/2024 07:08

Last night I made fish pie in advance.
Cooked the sauce, took off the heat, then stirred in raw prawns and fish.
Topped with mash potatoes.
Left it on the side for the potato to fully cool before I put in the fridge.
Plan was to cook it in the oven today for lunch.
However, I sat down on the sofa and nodded off!
I was asleep for 5hrs 30mins.
Woke up in middle of the night, put pie in the fridge where it has been ever since.
Will it be ok to cook this pie in the oven for lunch today?

If no- can I pick the prawns out, replace with fresh, smooth the potato over, and then pop in oven?!

Argh I'm so annoyed.

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Booksandwine80 · 19/10/2024 09:35

It will be fine, surely you would have had to let it cook completely before putting it in the fridge anyway?

Talipesmum · 19/10/2024 08:38

Oh this is dreadful - all that fish pie loveliness gone.

OP I feel that even if you had put it in the fridge fairly quickly, without going off to sleep, I don’t think it would be ok to eat - you’ve still partly warmed the fish and prawns and they’d have remained warm for quite a while - maybe an hour if you’d just left it to cool then fridged it? That feels like a bad move with fish / seafood. If you’d mixed them into a cold sauce and assembled, that’d be ok to prepare in advance, but I’m not sure about the overall method of advance prep here anyway, with partly warmed seafood, cooling and then reheating.

Loooop · 19/10/2024 08:32

I think if you don’t want to fully cook the prawns in the sauce in advance you need to let the sauce and mash cool before putting together. Half cooked is always a risk

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LilacCatt · 19/10/2024 08:28

Thanks so much for all replies.
At this point I wouldn't even enjoy eating it anyway coz Id be worrying.
I'm gonna sadly admit defeat
Note to self.. do not cook when tired.

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Atishooo · 19/10/2024 08:27

I would cook it and eat it.

HideousKinky · 19/10/2024 07:40

DH on the other hand would eat it

HideousKinky · 19/10/2024 07:39

I think I would bin it - but then I am massively cautious about these things

SauvignonBlonk · 19/10/2024 07:29

It’s been 20 odd degrees in our house the past few days, think I’d bin it.
Health before wealth. Not worth the food poisoning.

WillowTit · 19/10/2024 07:29

who are you feeding?
are they elderly?

purplebeansprouts · 19/10/2024 07:29

Mysa74 · 19/10/2024 07:25

We're the prawns definitely raw? Most easily available ones from supermarkets are pink, cooked and frozen and can be defrosted and eaten without any problems.
I'd cook and eat the pie as normal.

I think OP would know. All the supermarkets round my way sell raw prawns they aren't some rare oddity.

WillowTit · 19/10/2024 07:29

so the prawns and other fish would have cooked in the warm sauce

purplebeansprouts · 19/10/2024 07:28

Zampa · 19/10/2024 07:21

Because it's one thing to risk making yourself ill, but another to make friends and family ill.

FWIW I think the risks are small but there's still potential.

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Fair enough. I guess it all depends on the OP and if they can take the risk of getting ill at the moment

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LilacCatt · 19/10/2024 07:26

goldenshred · 19/10/2024 07:24

No way! You'll be wishing you wasted it when you're sat on the toilet in agony.

Yeah. I deffo do not want this 🙈

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LilacCatt · 19/10/2024 07:25

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 19/10/2024 07:24

Not the point, I know, but another time I’d let the prawns and fish cook in the sauce before adding the mash. They wouldn’t take more than a few minutes to cook through.

Thanks the only reason I didn't was coz I didn't want the prawns to over cook

Oh well 😭🤬😭🤬

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Mysa74 · 19/10/2024 07:25

We're the prawns definitely raw? Most easily available ones from supermarkets are pink, cooked and frozen and can be defrosted and eaten without any problems.
I'd cook and eat the pie as normal.

goldenshred · 19/10/2024 07:24

No way! You'll be wishing you wasted it when you're sat on the toilet in agony.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 19/10/2024 07:24

Not the point, I know, but another time I’d let the prawns and fish cook in the sauce before adding the mash. They wouldn’t take more than a few minutes to cook through.

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LilacCatt · 19/10/2024 07:22

arethereanyleftatall · 19/10/2024 07:15

You won't be eating raw prawns though- you're cooking it?
I would have absolutely no second thoughts whatsoever about cooking and eating this today.,

Yes, cooking in the oven.
Hmm. I dunno whether to risk it now by the answers 🙈
I don't know. I might not serve for lunch but just for myself for tea
But even then most of it will waste of not serving to others at lunch. Is it even worth it then, for the risk
Literally so effing annoyed at myself. I worked so hard on that pie! God

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Zampa · 19/10/2024 07:21

purplebeansprouts · 19/10/2024 07:20

Why?

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Because it's one thing to risk making yourself ill, but another to make friends and family ill.

FWIW I think the risks are small but there's still potential.

WillowTit · 19/10/2024 07:21

was it warm in the kitchen?
i think it shouldnt have gone directly into the fridge anyway and you will possible cook in oven for 50 minutes?

YouveGotAFastCar · 19/10/2024 07:20

Oof, I want to say it’d eat it to prevent waste, but… I don’t think j would. I don’t fancy food poisoning and 5 hours 30 minutes is a long time.

purplebeansprouts · 19/10/2024 07:20

Zampa · 19/10/2024 07:16

I would cook and eat it but I wouldn't serve it to guests

Why?

purplebeansprouts · 19/10/2024 07:19

Moonshine5 · 19/10/2024 07:17

5hr and 30 mins is not a nap.

No one said it was?

Moonshine5 · 19/10/2024 07:17

5hr and 30 mins is not a nap.

Zampa · 19/10/2024 07:16

I would cook and eat it but I wouldn't serve it to guests